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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Google turns up lots of each, but no real answer as to which is the original. Sneaking makes more sense, but I know I grew up saying sinking.
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For me a sinking suspicion is a suspicion (typically a sneaking one) which is accompanied by a sinking feeling. Not strongly eggcornish—feels like a sensible independent formation.
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Welcome to the forum, dhelm!
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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This is a nice addition to my forum post:
The STINKING feeling (sinking) by jorkel Contribute! 1 2007-06-24 11:19:56 by patschwieterman
I wonder if there is some idiom blending going on.
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